Asian man charged with possessing a suitcase containing heroin

An Asian man went on trial accused of possessing heroin inside a suitcase, a Sharjah Criminal Court heard.

The Criminal Laboratory examination proved the suspicious substance the defendant was carrying was narcotics.

The defendant’s medical examination also showed that he consumed another kind of narcotics.

The defendant was charged with possessing and abusing narcotics.

He claimed that he didn’t know that those substances were narcotics and that the bag only contained clothes.

During a court hearing, he admitted that he had consumed hashish in his home country two days before he was caught, but did not abuse any drugs inside the country.

Trial delayed until September 10 to summon a poison expert.